Sectional toy animal.



A. H. SWEET.

SECTIONAL TOY ANIMAL.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 28, 19w.

11,,Q3,9@2 PatentedSept. 11, 1917.

2 SHEETS-SHEET I.

A. H. SWEET.

SECTIONAL TOY ANIMAL.

APPLICATION men SEPT. 28. 19:5.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 2- ALVIN H. SWEET, SAN DIEG'Q, CALIFORNIA.

SEC'IIONAL TOY ANIMAL.

Specification of Letters Patent. P wne -61 s m, 391 a,

Application filed septe mber 28, 1915. Serial No. 53,058.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I,\.A.LVIN H. SWEET, a citizen of the United States,residing at San Diego, in thecounty of San Diego and State of.California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inSectional Toy Animals; and I do hereby declare the following to be afull, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enableothers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use thesame.

The invention relates to improvements in sectional toy animals.

The object of the present invention is to improve the construction ofsectional toy animals and to provide aset of blocks provided with meansfor detachably securing them together and capable of being interchangedand of enabling a plurality of grotesque animals to be made as well asnatural animals, such as a vduck, goose, ostrich,

camel, elephant, pig and the like.

With these and other objects 1n view the invention consists in theconstruction and in the accompanying drawings and pointed out in theclaims hereto appended, it being understood that various changes in theform, proportion and minor details of construction may be resorted towithout departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantagesof the invention.

I In the drawings Figure 1 is a side elevation of a sectional toy animalconstructed in accordance with this invention, the parts being arrangedto form a pig,

Fig. 2 is a similar view the parts being arranged to form a duck,

Fig. 3 is a side elevation, the sections being arranged to form a camel,

Fig. 4: is a side elevation of an elephant composed of the sections ormembers,

Fig.- 5 is a side elevation, the sections be ing arranged to form anostrich,

Figs. 6 to 10 inclusive are detail views of the body sections,

.Figs. 11 to 13 inclusive are detail views of the head sections,

Fig. 14 is a detail view of a combined head and neck section,

Fig. 15 is a detail view of a neck section,

Fig. 16 is a view of another form of neck section which is adapted alsoto serve as a trunk section in forming the elephant,

Figs. 17 and 18 are leg sections or members,

Fig. 19 is adetail view of a tapered section adapted to form the ears ofthe pig, the beak of the duck and the tail thereof,

Figs. 20 and 21 are detail views of wiretail elements or members,

Fig. 22 is a detail view of a dowel pin.

Like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in all thefigures of the drawings. In the'accompanying drawings in which isillustrated the preferred embodiment of the invention, 1, 2, and'3'designate front intermediate and rear body sections having fiatabutting faces 4, 5, and 6 and provided in the said-faces with sockets7, 8, and 9 adapted to receive a connecting pin 10 preferablyconstructed of wire and removably arranged in each of the said'sockets.By this construction, the sections may be readily connected andseparated and the number of sections forming the body of the animal maybe varied without having any unused pins projecting from the exterior ofthe animal. The intermediatesection 2 has fiat opposite faces 5 to fitagainst the flat faces of the front and rear end sections 1 and 3, andthe intermediate section may be omitted and the end sections 1 and 3secured together as shown in Fig. 2 when it is desired to form a duck.The front and rear body sections 1 and 3 are also provided at the bottomat opposite sides with sockets 11 and 12 adapted to receive dowel pinsfor connecting leg sections or members 13 or 14 to the said body sectionand the rear body section is also provided at the center of the backwith a socket 15 adapted to receive wire tail elements or members 16 and17 The front and rear body sections 1 and 3 are provided at the top withcentral sockets 18 and 19 adapted to receivedowel pins for connecting atop body section 20 to the'body formed by the. front, rear andintermediate sections to form the upper portion of a camel asillustrated in Fig. 3 of the drawings. The top section which providesthe hump of the camel is tapered and rounded at the top and is providedat the bottom adjacent to each end with a pin located near each end forengaging a socket 21.

The hump section or top section 20 is adapted to be readily placed onand removed from the body sections 1, 2, and 3. The

. front and rear sections 1 and 2 are also provided at their upperportions with inclined sockets 22 and 23 arranged at an angle to theflat faces of the substantially semi-spherical front and rear sections 1and 2 to enable the neck sections 24 to be applied to the front bodysection 1 in forming the camel and the tapered section 25 to be mountedupon the rear section 3 to form atail in arranging the parts to form aduck or an ostrich as illustrated in Figs. 2 and 5 of the drawings. Theneck section 24 which is round has a slightly curved transverselydisposed end face 26 to fit against the rounded front portion of thesection 1 of the body and the other end 27 is mitered or beveled and hasa concaved face to receive a head section 28,

to form the camel as shown in Fig. 3. The M curved face 26 enables theblock or section to fit substantially the curved surface of thesemi-spherical section around the openings 22 and 23. In forming theduck shown in Fig. 2 a combined neck and head section 29 is employed andin forming the ostrich shown" in Fig. 5, a neck section 30 and a headsection 31 are used. The neck section 30 which is circular in crosssection 'ta ers from .one end to the other and each o its end faces istransversely disposed substantially at right angles to its longitudinalaxis.

The front section is also adapted to have connected to its upper portionat the socket 22 a head section 32 designed to resemble in practice thehead of an elephant and having a reduced extension 33 adapted to havethe mal.

The'front and rear sections 1 and 3 are approximately half round and acombined head and body section 35 may be substituted for the frontsection 1 to form the body of a pig. The section 35 has its frontportion tapered to form the snout 36 and it has sockets 37 and 38-toreceive dowel pins for connecting the sections 25 to the top of it andfor connecting it to the intermediate section 2. In practice a pluralityof the sections 25 will of course be provided and this will alsobe trueof the legsections which may be arranged either singly or'double asshown. The sections may be constructed of any suitable material eitherword or metal and the dowel pins may be of a 1y desired length. Alsovarious other form." of ani mals may be built up by the blocks orsections.

Also the centrall arranged dowel pins for connecting the cad sectionswill permit the headsto turn freely as well as the other sections whichhave the central sockets and connecting pins.

What is claimed is 1. A set of toy animal building blocks includingseparate interchangeable body sections provided with removable means fordetachably securing them together to form bodies of diiferent shapes andsizes, said body sections comprising cylindrical and semi-sphericalsections, and a tapered section cross sectionally circular and having acyhndrical extenslon.

2. A set of toy animal building blocks including separateinterchangeable body sections provided with means for detachablysecuring them together to form bodies of different shapes and sizes,said body sections comprising cylindrical and semi-spherical sections,and a top or hump section having a lower concave face arranged to fitsubstantially the curved surfaces of the said sections. Y 3. A set oftoy animal blocks including a substantially semi-spherical body sectionhaving'an opening arranged at an angle to the flat face of thesaidsection, and a block or section coiiperating with the semi-sphericalsection and having. a curved end face to fit substantially the curvedsurface of the semi-spherical section around the opening thereof, saidblock or section being provided with means for engaging the saidopening.

In testimony whereof I afix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

I ALVIN H. SWEET.

, Witnesses:

HOWARD HADLEY,

W. S. MUNIOE.

